Holy Diver · Dio

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 23-25, and 4 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
HOLY DIVER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 17, 22, 26, 30, 32 and 22 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 28 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART O
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGAOOAAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Diver?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Holy Diver hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Holy Diver?

22 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 17, 22, 26, 30, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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